Discontinued Operations

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Discontinued Operations

Discontinued Operations

From 2012 through 2014, the company sold three businesses which were classified as discontinued operations. The company recorded cumulative expenses related to the sale of discontinued operations totaling $8,801,000, of which $8,405,000 have been paid as of September 30, 2016.The company recorded an incremental intra-period tax allocation expense to discontinued operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 which represented the cumulative intra-period allocation expense to discontinued operations based on the company's prior year estimate of the projected domestic taxable loss related to continuing operations for 2015.